apple’s keynote announcement predictions

Apple announcements are today and the rumor mills have been churning non-stop. Here are my predictions/thoughts.

1. Apple will announce a new apple tv called iTV that connects to the iTunes for movies music and most importantly app store. That means there would be netflix, hulu, and abc apps to watch your tv shows and movies. And I bet you’ll be able to start tweeting right from your tv and more. Please no stupid foursquare app where you check in from your tv.

I also see a big potential market for games. I think this will be apples way to break into the whole console gaming to compete against xbox, playstation and nintendo. People would use iPhones as controllers. It would be the most high tech controller there is with gyroscope and retina display. Imagine playing poker with friends and your iPhone becomes your cards you play. Or imagine playing a racing car game and your iPhone becomes the steering wheel. ORRRR imagine playing tennis and you swing your phone around like a wii controller. All plausible.

2. Obviously the iPods and touch will get a refresh. Rumors says there will be a smaller nano with touch screen. Also new ipod touch with front facing camera and new form factor. I’m pretty sure facetime will be on the itouch as well.

3. Just being hopeful… new ios 4 for iPad and new ios update for the iPhone 4 to fix the proximity sensor. Please apple. Come on!!!!! Fix the proximity sensor damn it!

i <3 slo-mo

Tempus II from Philip Heron on Vimeo.

rap song for the web devs

darth vader calls apple

getting back on the bike

I’ve been itching to get back on the bike and start cycling again but none of the fools I trained with for MS 150 want to bike. So I went searching for people to bike with and I found a meetup.com group called, “Come Ride With Us“. They get together every Tuesday, Thursday, and Sundays and cycle together all over the greater Houston and some other places around Texas. I first rode with them last Thursday and I had a great time. Everyone was pretty laid back, and welcoming. Thursdays are usually a moderate pace ride at around 15 mph and it was a nice 22 mile ride around Houston inner loop area. If you want to ride, come on out, it’s a lot of fun when you cycle with other people.

I rode with the group again yesterday and I decided to use my new iphone 4, with the map my ride app, and map the course out. So here it is: